Mayor right to clear public spaces of panhandlers

Mayor has right idea
to discourage panhandling

Jane Henegar's recent My View made me wonder about the percentage of panhandlers who are poor or homeless. She didn't mention those who beg for cash in Downtown, at highway ramps and intersections. They are "in business" and I'm sure they spend their take on things their mothers wouldn't approve of.

With all of the means of government, religious and private support, not to mention all of the recent increases in the food stamp rolls and the huge jump in the number of disability payouts, I think that the mayor has it right to clear the public spaces of people trying to take the money of hardworking taxpayers. Henegar's attempt to make us feel that we're not doing all we can flies in the face of a $17 trillion national debt, which our descendants will have to deal with for generations.

Murray Moon

Indianapolis

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Mayor right to clear public spaces of panhandlers

Jane Henegar's recent My View made me wonder about the percentage of panhandlers who are poor or homeless. She didn't mention those who beg for cash in Downtown, at highway ramps and intersections.